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About The morning Astorian. (Astoria, Or.) 1899-1930 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 29, 1904)
ASTORIA,' OREGON, TIirRSDAV, SKl'TKMUKR 2!, l!W4. s ! PAGE EIGHT. GREAT YEAR FOR HOPMEN Foreign Crops Are Short and Coast States Must Supply the Deficit Abroad. PORTLAND FULL OF BUYERS Price Is Now 2S Outs mid Still Higher Figures Will l"le Before Oregon YieKl Is Sold. , , . f; ? $ V ' Telegram: "There ts Yery prospect that hops will go akjf higii' during the present wasW4J&' Smit:i- lar&e dealer and tnyer of hops from New York, today. ' With the English crop the shortest since 18S2. when hops went to $1 a pound, and wtth the Ger man crop equally short, the only avail able supply comes from Oregon, Wash ington and California, and Oregon pro duces more than the other two states combined. "Today hop men are offering 28 cents. With no takers. Growers will not sell at that figure, and I look for hops to go to SO cents soon. Within two months they may go up to 40 or even 50 cents. Oregon farmers who have raised hops this season will find themselves on velvet. Not only will those ranchers who have raised wheat do well, but hoprnen will come in for their share of the general prosperity. The selling of hops here has been active for the past tew days, and thousands of bales have changed hands at good figures. Twenty eight and 28H cents has been the sell ing figure. Yesterday the buying was the heaviest this season. I have a tel egram from California this morning Btatlng that everything offered there at 28 and 284 cents has been taken. Five days ago In New York exporters were paying 33 cents. "The situation here is the strongest that has obtained for several years. The town Is fu,U of buyers who are anx ious to get the crop at top prices, but growers are holding their hops. No pool of any kind among the producers has as yet been formed, nor is such a combination likely. I think the re mainder of the crop, probably not over 25,000 bales, will pass out of the hands of the growers within the next 30 days at prices which will continually grow better." Krebs Brothers of Salem, who are credited wlth'ownlrg the largest hop yard In the world, are at the Belvedere, and are waiting for any chances which may present themselves to buy more hops. Others are eager to buy at the present prices, but are unable to obtain uiv stocks at that figure. Heretofore the crop has been absorbed'rapidly all along this coast, and California has but little left. On the exact amount esti mates differ, as some say not more than 5000 bales remain unsold. The first snipments of the 1904 crop east started on the 24th to Chicago over the O. R. & N., and consisted of 38 bales. A hundred bales followed yes terday, bound for New York, and 32 more went to Chicago last night on the O. R. & N. Of the 70,000 bales estimated as the total Oregon crop this year against about 88,000 bales last season, not over one-third of the crop remains with the growers. The Belvedere hotel Is a genuine hop market Buyers congregate there and growers make thut hoVe'ry their head quarters to gt posted on the market when they Intend to sell. PERSONAL MENTION. A. A. Cook of rortland Is In the city. Mrs. Ed. Strumeyer retitrned from a Portland visit last evening. Miss Sue II. Klmore and Miss Helm Hobson are in Vortland. Mrs. Dr. J. Tuttle went to lirt!nml yesterday, returning last evening. Master Fish Warden Van Onsen re turned from Portland last evening. Mrs. Henry S. MeOowun and children were over yesterday from McGowan. Mrs. Stanley and Miss June Stanley of Seaside were shopping In the city yesterday. Harrison L. Hamblet returned last night to Portland, after a, short stay in the city. Dr. August C. Kinney returned from a business trip to Portland on last night s train. Mrs. E. H. Streumeyer returned last night from Seattle, where she spent three weeks with friends. Mrs. C. Davis and Mrs. Andrew Dnhl of Chinook were In the city yesterday, on a shopping expedition. Hon. Clarence J. Curtis, editor of the Sentinel, city attorney and real estate broken of Seaside, came up yesterday afternoon. C. F. Salter, who is connected with the Eureka Standard, Is among the outgoing passengers of the Alliance. Mr. Salter has been visiting on Grays harbor. Captain John Haggblom and wife re turned last evening from Hot Lake, where they have been during the past two weeks for the benefit of Mrs. Hagg- blom's health, which is much Im proved. H B Parker returned last evening from a trip to the Coos Bay country. The old gentleman says he was pretty badly shaken up by the rough ride over the mountains, bit enjoyed seeing the great change which has taken place In the county since he first visited It 42 years ago. An Oregon City item in the Journal says of a former Astoria pastor: Rev. E. S. Bollinger, pastor of the First Con gregational church in this city, has re ceived information of the death of his mother at her home In Pennsylvania. Mr. Bollinger was prostrated and una ble to preach lait Sunday evening. HOTEL ARRIVALS. Parker House. J. Burns, Hammond. Joe Schlappii, San Francisco. Mrs. Reld, Heppner, Ore. Mrs. T. Ardew and children. Ocean Park. W. B. Hayden, Ilwaco. Troy W. Kemp and wife, Portland. Fred A. Eyer, Roseberg, Ore. Wm. Berg, Clatskanle. The Star Leads. The -Star leads in vaudeville because no expense Is spared in securing for this house the best acts obtainable. No act is sent here that has not "made good" in Portland. The high-priced acts are always found at the Star. BASEBALL SCORES. Pacific Coast. At Portland Oakland, 5; Portland, 1. At San Francisco Los Angeles, 1; San Francisco, 4. At Tacoma Seattle, 9; Tacoma, 3. BEVERIDGE SPEAKS ON THE ISSUES (Continued from Page 1.) coal combination.' If there Is one? There Is no tariff on anthracite coal. "If trusts necessarily raise prices. whv has the price of sugar steadily fallen for more than 30 years; It ts said there Is a sugar trust. And why has the price of beans gone up? There Is no bean trust. Or the price of wheat? There Is no wheat trust. So fre trade will not prevent trusts, and prices rise and fall wtth and without trusts, "So far as legislation can remedy the evils of trusts, republican legislation the Sherman law. the rebate law, the department of commerce and labor law the only legislation ever enacted on the subject will do It If enforced. And Roosevelt's election means enforce ment of those laws and all laws." Th Financial Problem. Discussing at length the financial question. Senator Beverldge soldu-. "The way to keep the gold standard out of danger Is to keep It In the hands of those who put It out of danger. Eighteen hundred and nlnety-slx was no more a time for silence and hid ing than IS61 was a time for cownrdlce and evasion. It was not only a po litical struggle, but on both sides It was :i moral struggle. On both sides men who had for years trimmed and com promised threw aside expediency and spoke and acted on principles. Was Grover Cleveland silent? Did he by his vote condone what he declared with his voice would be a crime? Were Senator Teller and the band of life long republicans who marched out of the St. Louis convention silent then? Did they condone by their votes what their tongues proclaimed would be a crime? Were John M. Palmer and Gen eral Buckner and the host of gold dem ocrats silent then? Thousands of life long republicans left their party: thou sands of lifelong democrats left their prty. Among 80,000,000 people there was a new alignment, hundreds of thousands changing sides, and all be cause of a principle which they be lieved would determine the future of the republic; yet at this hour, when men were destroying their political fu ture for principle's sake, when brother turned against brother rather than for sake convictions, and even families were divided at this supreme moral hour in the history of the American people, equaled ln Its purity only by that other moral 'awakening that rang ed brother against brother on battle fields 40 years ago; in this hour, made heroic by devotion to beliefs on both sides, Alton B. Parker was silent but he voted for free sliver. Is that the kind of man In whom gold democrats can now find the leader of a cause? Is that the kind of man In whom silvei democrats can now find the leader of a cause?" Our Philippine Policy. On the Philippines, Senator Bever idge said: "The opposition candidate admits that we can not leave the Philippines now even If It were desirable; admits that he can not leave them until they are able to stand alone. Ex-Governor Taft, a republican, present Governor Wright, a democrat, and every man who has examined the situation on the ground says that this will not be for decades. Mr. Parker admits that we can not leave them now, but If we can not leave them now why promise what we will do after awhile? It Is as bad for a nation to mortgage Its future as hiixixixxixxixxxxixxiiixiixiexixxxiixixxxxxiiiixxixxxxxxxxxxxxixxxxxixxxxxxiim HA N D FINISHED CLOTHING 1SS1 Jpjjf CDDPtCT IHSI1I0NS rRON 1 ' IK-fSt UMippeiiheimcrkG. $m iwlfc Clothes Makers U 1 7 immm few III w n 1 . v tty B.Kupfnhimr Co-CMcjj0 TIuto i a iliiFervnco in CLOTHING us well its iii everything wine. You vim buy choup '' clothes and kick rtbotit the lit mid wear, and you enn buy fjood, hoiient, hand nmdo garments. "When Herman Wise tell you a unit or ovcrcout in itU riht, you inuy depend on ii& ITS SO. 25 years' experience and, reputation behind every sale. HERMAN WISE The Reliable Clothier and Hatter. It Is for a man to mortgage his farm. Our children will be as wise and right eous as we are; and they will know more. Why not trust the future to them? "Evading all Issues except those which they declare aie settled, the op position are making Theodore House velt the Issue. We will save them the trouble we ourselves will make Theo dore Roosevelt un IsHue. And on that Issue we do not defend; we attack. The election of Theodore Hoosevelt means certainty In every potli-y, foreign and domestic, and stability Is necessary to sound business. Hut above all else, Roosevelt's election means that no power In this republic, however strong or rich, no organization, however de termined, Is too great for the sover eignty of the law; no citizen, however poor or humble, no Interest, however small or weak, Is too Insignificant for the law's protection. And this is the largest Issue of the campaign." Fearful Odds Against Him. Bedridden, alone and destitute. Such, In brief was the condition of an old soldier by name of J. J. Havens, Ver sailles, O. For years he was troubled Iwlth Kidney disease and. neither doc tors nor medicines gave him relief, At length he tried Electric Bitter. It put him on his feet In short order and now he testifies: "I'm on the road to complete recovery." Xteet on earth for liver and kidney troubles and all forms of stomach and bowel complaints. Only 60c. Guaranteed by Chas. Rogers, druggist. rxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxixxxixxxxxxxxxxxxxixxxxxxH Just Gall For It! ELCIELO IO-C E NT CI OA R HOME MANUFACTURED BEST FOR THE MONEY The 1 Clelo Cigar may be had at any of the fol lowing placet of business: THOS PETERSON D. B. ALLEN JOHNSON t COOK P- 5. KENNEY CMAS WESCHE " OEO. CHUTTER CHAS OLSEN FRED BROWN THE LOUVRE JOHN PINTTALA P. E. PETERSON The following East Astoria houses carry the El Cieloi WILLIAM NYBERG CEO. LINDSTR0M MRS. TYSON Manufactured by JOHN V. BURNS ASTORIA, OREGON 1 LADIES9 COATS We havea full line of the fashionable Tourist Coat in all the latest shades: Brown mix tures, grays, blacks, etc. All our gar ments are made by thebest tailors in the country and we give at all times the best values. Prices from SB.BO to $20.00 Our stock of Ladies' Suits is filled with the newest and best in style and material. Prices $7.50 to $28.00 MIVE FALL MILLINERY OPENING Friday, September 30th, and Satur day, October 1st When we will show by far the most elegant line of tailored and pattern hats in the city. We will have on display a full line of "GAGE'S" fine tailored hats, and the latest in New York and Chicago patterns. ' Also elegant patterns made, by our most skillful ea&tern milliner. You are invited, to see this display. The latest creations in millinery. - .. t . PURITAN HOSIERY The hose tha weare, holds its color, and gives the the best satisfaction. In Ladies', Misses' and Hoys' at all' prices, 10c-15c-20c-25c to 1.35. Value Extraordinary All wool ribbed, Puritan hose, sizes 5 1-2 to 10, 2 pair for ' . Pay tockings For Ladies Boys and-Girls need no supporters, best for health, wear, com fort and economy. You can always buy cheapest at the BEE HIVE Y v